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Newly-appointed Grimsby East Community Policing Inspector David Stephenson said: “It is about building community engagement and increasing the confidence among the public to give us an understanding of local issues so that we can start to come up with long-term solutions.

“We are focusing on retailers and the concerns they have raised over homelessness and shop thefts. We are looking wider than just St Peter’s Avenue and speaking to as many residents as possible.”

The day of action included patrols by police traffic officers.

A disqualified driver with no insurance was caught in Cleethorpes and will be appearing at court soon.

Humbersdie Police officers during their latest day of action, centred around the St. Peters Avenue area of Cleethorpes. PCSO Ian Wilson, hands out Humberside Police advice sheets for local businesses, to Sarah Field, Superdrug store manager.

Store manager of Superdrug on St Peter’s Avenue, Sarah Field was pleased to see the high visibility of police officers.

“More visibility would be good and less begging in the streets and less shop lifting would improve the area,” she said.

The manager added: “There is a police presence but they get called out to everywhere else.”

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Within a few hours of the online survey going live the top three offences in Croft Baker were highlighted as anti-social behaviour, burglary and car crime.

Humbersdie Police officers during their latest day of action, centred around the St. Peters Avenue area of Cleethorpes. A smart phone displaying the Croft Baker business survey, which officers filled in as they spoke to business owners about their concerns in the area.

But Neighbourhood Beat Manager for Cleethorpes, PC Caroline Cameron, who won a Team Award at the Humberside Police Commendation ceremony at Hull KCom last week, said, flytipping and noise nuisance figure highly in residents' concerns.

She said: “We are talking to people and finding out the problems and issues they wish to raise and use the online survey so that we can find out what needs addressing and looking for emerging problems and patterns.

“We are surveying residents in the side streets off St Peter’s Avenue as well. We are also focussing on motor vehicle crime and rogue traders and trying to identify vulnerable people.”

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She said every business in the Croft Baker ward which stretches from Isaac’s Hill to Queen’s Parade and Taylor’s Avenue would be included in the survey to find out what they have in place to curb crime.

Humberside Fire and Rescue Service road safety advocate, John Rowland invited young people to fit headsets and watch a virtual reality video of young people in a car and the risks of driving while using a mobile phone and without seatbelts.

Humbersdie Police officers during their latest day of action, centred around the St. Peters Avenue area of Cleethorpes. Shop worker, Robyn Vaughan, tries out the road safety virtual reality headset, under the guidance of John Rowland, road safety advocate for Humberside Fire and Rescue Service.

John said: “We have had really positive feedback.”

Robyn Vaughan, 26, said: “It was awful to watch. It is so surreal. But I would rather experience it like this than real life. Everyone should take the advice in the video. If more people got to watch that they would be safer on the roads.”

A shop manager in St Peter’s Avenue said she wanted to see more CCTV cameras in the street to curb anti-social behaviour.